This chapter opens with a discussion of the possibility of a new god, or god of hope, who would bring hope to people. This god would be the god of death, or death as it is called in the ancient China. This new god would bring death to the people, and this is what the old god, the emperor Diomedes, had said. The old god's son, yisheng, disagrees with his father's opinion that a death is the best way to go. .